Stewart Parvin, the Queen’s wardrobe designer for the past 11 years, admitted to the Standard: “The shoes have to be immediately comfortable... she does get someone to wear them. The Queen can never say, ‘I’m uncomfortable, I can’t walk anymore.’ She has the right to have someone wear them in.”

The person hired to break in Her Majesty’s footwear must follow certain rules. They must always wear beige ankle socks, for instance, and are only allowed to walk on carpet in Buckingham Palace during the "breaking in" period.

Her Royal Highness is a U.K. size four (U.S./Canada size 6) and is known for wearing patent leather slip-on shoes by Anello & Davide.

On Twitter, fans praised Her Majesty for her genius shoe hack:

bes thing av heard all day is that the queen gets someone to break in her shoes for her for 4 week so she dunt get blisters 😂😭😂😭